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Scott Coffin, Ph.D. Profile picture
Scott Coffin, Ph.D.
@DrSCoffin
Environmental Toxicologist | Research Scientist @CAWaterBoards | Microplastics | @ToMExApp dev | @ThePlastiverse founder | RYT:200 🕉 | he/him | Views own
Aug 9, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Soon California will monitor #microplastics in #drinkingWater and inform consumers. Law requires @CaWaterBoards evaluate #humanHealth risks and consider developing a numerical guidance level.

We convened an expert workshop to inform the state.
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microplastics.springeropen.com/articles/10.11… We started by scraping the literature for toxicity studies. Of the >220 studies, 74 were relevant for humans. We focused on in vivo studies (n = 41) due to the lack of a framework for quantitative assessing in vitro particle toxicity data.

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